6. Indianapolis-based OrthoIndy treated the first patients with Theradaptive's OsteoAdapt SP spinal fusion implant in November as part of an ongoing clinical trial. A few months later, M. Craig ...

A new research project underway at Scripps Health will attempt to design and test a smart shoulder, one that could record and relay the actual forces that occur inside an implant after surgery.

Director of Sports Medicine at Midwest Orthopaedics ... shoulder replacement, where surgeons replace the socket but still depend on all the surrounding muscle and tendons to support the implant.